From a97372213c2609282637224a6dffa948fbb49801 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Adi Masputra Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 19:52:59 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Added notes on IPv6 over PPP on Solaris --- README.sol2 | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+) diff --git a/README.sol2 b/README.sol2 index 2f4a6f6..a6b181a 100644 --- a/README.sol2 +++ b/README.sol2 @@ -45,6 +45,28 @@ create an /etc/ppp/ip-up script containing something like this: See the man page for ip(7p) for details. +IPv6 Support. +************* + +This version has been tested under Solaris 8 running IPv6. As of now, +interoperability testing has only been done between Solaris machines +in terms of the IPV6 NCP. An additional command line option for the +pppd daemon has been added: ipv6cp-use-persistent + +By default, compilation for IPv6 support is not enabled. Uncomment the +necessary lines in pppd/Makefile.sol2 to enable it. Once done, the +quickest way to get IPv6 running is to add the following somewhere +in the command line option: + + +ipv6 ipv6cp-use-persistent + +The persistent id for the link-local address was added to conform to +RFC 2472; such that if there's an EUI-48 available, use that to make up +the EUI-64. As of now, the Solaris implementation extracts the EUI-48 +id from the Ethernet's MAC address (the ethernet interface needs to +be up). Future works might support other ways of obtaining a unique +yet persistent id, such as EEPROM serial numbers, etc. + 64-bit Support. *************** -- 2.39.2